Staten Island
Impaired Judgment
Alyssa Katz |
The city’s child welfare agency is funneling borderline cases into an already overwhelmed Family Court system. The result is more kids are in foster care-and they’re staying in limbo longer.
Bronx
ACORN Branches Out
Kemba Johnson |
For ACORN, protesting for the housing and economic rights of communities is easy. Providing social services–and getting paid big bucks to do it–has been a new challenge.
City Lit: Import Exploit
Michael Hirsch |
A book review of Forbidden Workers: Illegal Chinese Immigrants and American Labor, by Peter Kwong, The New Press, 1998, 273 pages, $24.
